Mesh bag and method of making the same.



O. A. SMITH.

MESH BAG AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.21, 1913.

Patented Oct. 7, 1913.

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GYRIL A. SMITH, 0F

ATTLEBORO, MASSACHUSETTS.

MESH BAG AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. '7, 1913.

Application filed February 21, 1913. Serial No. 749,801.

To all whom it mag, concern:

Be it known that I, CYRIL A. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Attleboro, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mesh Bags and Methods of Making the Same, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to bags of metallic fabric and more particularly to the construction of the fabric intended to be used for bags, purses and the like. The essential objects of my invention are to provide a fabric adapted for the use suggested which will not readily break under strain; and wherein the use of links may be dispensed with; and provide a fabric that when introduced into a bag frame shall be adapted to have its folds directed lengthwise of the bag rather than transversely thereof; and insure a freedom from transverse stifiness, and possess the necessary pliability.

A further object is to insure a retention of the form of the bag without preventing the desired amount of flexibility and pliability.

To the above ends my invention consists essentially in such parts and such combinations of parts as fall within the scope of the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings which form a part of my specification :F igure 1 is a plan elevation of a strip of metal fabric preparatory to being folded to form a bag, Fig. 2, an enlarged view of an intermediate portion of the strip shown in Fig. 1, Fig. 3, a similar view of the central portion of the strip shown in Fig. 1 indicating a portion of the stiffening rod inserted therein, Fig. 4, an end view of the same, Figs. 5 and 6, detailed views of sections of a wire and the rod employed in the construction of the bag, and Fig. 7, a front view of a complete bag constructed of my novel mesh.

Like reference characters indicate like parts throughout the views.

The metal fabric strip A from which my bag is formed is shown in original strip form in Fig. 1. In detail the fabric is constructed as follows: A plurality of helical wires B comprising the usual helices 7), shown in detail in Fig. 5, are interengaged by winding a plurality of these wires one by one into the next adjacent parallel wire so that their respective helices shall engage forming substantially lozenge shaped apertures 0 throughout the fabric when viewed from the front. At a point intermediate the top and bottom edges of an oblong fabric strip A the stiffening rod D is inserted transversely of the fabric, by inserting the forward end of the rod into the edge of the fabric of the strip A, so that its helices d pass through the successive series of apertures 0, best shown in Figs. 3 and 4:. The rod D is thus wound the entire width of the strip A, and the latter is then folded along the line of insertion of the rod so that the stiffening member D is located along the entire length of the bottom of the bag, as shown in Fig. 7, and thus forms a transverse stiffening means at the bottom of the bag which insures that the latter shall not become shapeless when the bag is in use. Any resultant folds in the fabric will be directed from the frame or jaws 'F downwardly. The bag body A may be attached to the frame F in any usual desired manner such as by rivets f and any desired fastening G such as the usual one shown may be employed upon the frame, the particular construction of the frame and its details being non-essential to the present invention.

lNhat I claim is:

1. In a mesh bag, the combination with the frame, of a body portion comprising front and back walls integral with each other and provided with a fold at the junction of the front and back walls, and fixed at their upper portions to the frame, said walls comprising a plurality of wires parallel with each other and vertically disposed and comprising a series of spiral loops interengaging the loops of the adjacent wires and forming parallel rows of apertures, and a rod provided with spirals located in said fold and extending the width of the bag, the spirals of said rod passing through apertures.

2. The method of making a mesh bag consisting in arranging a series of wires provided with spiral loops side by side with the loops interengaging each other to form a rectangular strip of metal fabric, folding said fabric intermediate its length to form wall of the bag, engaging a frame to the In testimony whereof I have affixed my upper majrgins of the; wpaills, and: inserting signature in presence of two Witnesses into the abrie' ail-0n t e" fol-(=1 a; p r0- v i. r" .e vided with spirals, said insertion being ef- GYRIL SMITH 5 fected by manually rotating the said spiral ,1 Witnesses:

rod through apertures formed by the iuter- HORATIO E. BELLOWS,

engaging loops of the Wires. 7 r i 1 FRED: W. PERKINS.

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